Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities... Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U.S. expansion and imperialism.

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

I had volunteered for the Air Force and was an enthusiastic bombardier. While dropping bombs on Europe, I generally didn't understand what I was doing.

I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.

Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative of the national government or the politicians. They only respond to the power of social movements.